ATS contributors discuss their spiritual and theological perspectives, and the relationship of these to history, ethics, and politics. Features conservative Christians Brock Bellerive and Todd Lewis, pagan Rodney Huber, and atheists Spencer Pearson and Keith Preston.

Topics include:

The unfortunate history of mutual persecution between Christians, pagans, and secularists.

The question of which religious or philosophical traditions have the most blood on their hands.

How political decentralization and cultural separation help to foster peaceful co-existence

Keith Preston critiques the growing libertarian movement within the context of current political trends in the United States. Topics include:

Topics include:

How libertarianism has grown in popularity since 2007.

Why the libertarian movement is merely a microcosm of the wider society.

How the mainstream right is experiencing a growing conflict between libertarians, neoconservatives, and social conservatives.

The bleak future of the Republican Party.</li.

The probability of the neoconservatives future return to the Democratic Party.

How the corporate class is attempting to co-opt libertarianism.

How the political class of the future will be a triumvirate of neoconservatives, progressive liberals, and the hard left.

Why the present day anarchist milieu is not a movement for functional adults.

Emerging cracks in the left’s coalition of constituents.

The need to cultivate much better quality anarchist and libertarian movements in the decades ahead so that these movements will be prepared for the crises that will unfold as the twenty-first century progresses.

Becky Belding is a libertarian and married mother of three living in South Carolina. She is a part time wage slave in finance to fund her expensive lapidary and wire art hobby, Eclectic Spectrum. She also has a political blog at Meat Curtain of Doom.

Trista is satanic anarcha feminist, small business owner and blogger. You can read her rantings here: And I rant….

Keith Preston continues his discussion of the likely political future of the United States.

Topics include:

Peter Beinart’s recent article, “The Rise of New New Left,” and how this thesis is consistent with the ARV-ATS outlook.

Rick Perlstein’s skeptical response, which raises the spectre of an American fascism.

How the Left has never recovered from the traumatizing experience of fascism and the crippling paranoia that grips the Left as a result.

Why Anarchists should reject the cliches of progressive liberalism and social democracy, and instead embrace an uncompromisingly revolutionary stance.

Why changing social conditions will make it necessary for Anarchists to evolve past the narrow race, class, and gender paradigm of the academic Left in favor of a radical populism that incorporates libertarian, decentralist, and anti-authoritarian ideas from all across the political spectrum into its approach.

Keith Preston revisits some of the core ATS documents in light of contemporary events.

Topics include:

How the neoconservatives have been eclipsed by the liberal internationalists as predicted in the 2003 essay “Philosophical Anarchism and the Death of Empire.”

How a resurgent Russia is challenging the unipolar American empire as predicted in the same essay.

How the liberal internationalist/cultural Marxist alliance has become the dominant ruling class faction as predicted in the “Liberty and Populism” essay.

How totalitarian humanism is emerging as the ideological foundation of the present march towards ever greater state repression as predicted in past ATS analysis.

How ARV-ATS concepts like anarcho-pluralism, radical localism, pan-secessionism, and anti-totalitarian humanism are spreading into an ever greater number of political currents, including those who are outside of or even hostile to ARV-ATS.

How escalating state repression against dissident movements will necessitate the formation of a grand alliance against the common enemy, and how only anarcho-pluralism and pan-secessionist provide the framework for such an alliance.

The revolutionary vision of ARV-ATS for a future civilization that has hardly been conceived of at present.

-Defining Cascadia as a place rather than a political entity.
-The ideas and history of bioregionalism as a movement.
-The commonalities shared by colonized peoples.
-The relationship between ecological crises and colonialism.
-The need for food sovereignty.
-How technological and ecological values can co-exist.
-Why radical localism is the path to resistance.
-The film “Occupied Cascadia.” More…